Marianne Schnall

Bio:

Marianne Schnall is a widely published writer and interviewer whose work has appeared in a variety of media outlets such as The Huffington Post; the Women’s Media Center; CNN.com; O, The Oprah Magazine; Glamour; In Style; Ms. Magazine; Refinery29; ForbesWoman, and a variety of others. She is the author of Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness and Finding Your Own Voice.

Schnall’s latest book is What Will It Take to Make a Woman President? Conversations About Women, Leadership & Power, featuring interviews with politicians, public officials, thought leaders, writers, artists, and activists including Sheryl Sandberg, Nancy Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Nicholas Kristof, Melissa Etheridge, Anita Hill, Jessica Valenti, Olympia Snowe, and many more.

Schnall is a graduate of the Women’s Media Center’s Progressive Women’s Voices media and leadership training program. She is a commentator for WAMC’s nationally syndicated show “51%: The Women’s Perspective,” which is carried nationally on NPR, ABC, and Armed Forces Radio stations. She was a contributor to Robin Morgan’s anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women’s Anthology for a New Millennium.

Schnall is the founder and Executive Director of Feminist.com, a leading women’s website and nonprofit organization. For over twenty years, Feminist.com has been fostering awareness, education, and activism for people all across the world. Schnall is also the founder of What Will It Take Movements, a media, collaboration, learning, event, and social engagement platform that inspires, connects, educates, and engages women everywhere to advance in all levels of leadership and take action. She is also the cofounder of EcoMall.com, one of the oldest environmental websites promoting earth-friendly living. Through her writings, interviews, and websites, Schnall strives to raise awareness and inspire activism around important issues and causes.

Marianne Schnall is a WMC SheSource expert on Environment, Humanitarian, Media and Entertainment, Social Justice, Technology and Science.

Last week's awards ceremony in New York City celebrated women making a difference in the media. Marianne Schnall asked award winners how they achieved personal success and what it would take to improve women's overall status.

The author, founder of Feminist.com, interviews the first-time filmmaker who is winning awards for her documentary on the woman whose death on the streets of Tehran helped kindle Iran's democracy movement.

Working with the nation’s top women’s liberal arts colleges, Secretary of State Clinton hopes to harness the potential of women around the world to strengthen leadership in both government and civil society.

The documentary shown on Oprah's OWN network takes on the disparagement of women and girls in the media in a comprehensive way. Marianne Schnall talks to "Miss Representation" filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

Like the national appeal to Rosie the Riveter during World War II, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is asking women to move "Off the Sidelines" to the center of decision making and power in the United States.

In her final year as California's First Lady, Maria Shriver turns public attention to Alzheimer’s advocacy at her influential California Governor & First Lady's Conference on Women. Reflecting on an interview with Shriver, author and Feminist.com founder Marianne Schnall explores the personal stories and experiences behind Shriver’s decision.

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson say women and girls are the victims of dangerous practices too often justified in the name of religion and tradition. They are members of a prestigious international group that is spotlighting the issue.

Eleven years after the launch of V-Day, Eve Ensler sets out to do for girls what she did for women—uncover the truth of their experiences and create a global dialogue. Her new book is being published February 9.

A Time magazine cover story and a week of programming on NBC immediately followed the release of The Shriver Report. This week, California’s First Lady will use the findings to engage participants in her annual conference on women. If the continuing activity fails to “ignite a national conversation,” it won’t be for lack of planning and effort.

At this yearâs annual Omega womenâs conference in Rhinebeck, New York, participants reached across generations to empower themselves and their communities. The authors spoke to two of the younge...

Not content merely to speak to her Broadway audience eight times a week through a critically acclaimed performance, Jane Fonda is blogging daily and twittering nightly. She finds herself hooked on the instant feedback.

Women and girls in eastern Congo suffer sexual atrocities that are tactics of war in the region. Playwright Eve Ensler has joined with Dr. Denis Mukwege to ask us to imagine the unimaginable, to empathize and join together to end the terror.

It’s mind-numbing. Four hundred thousand dead and 2.45 million displaced in Darfur; 5.4 million dead in fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998; epidemic levels of violence against women and children. With the constant repetition of such statistics of devastation, what can move us to action?

In 1996, when Eve Ensler premiered The Vagina Monologues at a small performance space in downtown New York, she received the type of response playwrights dream about: critical acclaim, an Obie award...

Consider these two images from recent news events: 20,000 monks marching past Burmese Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyiâs home to protest the democracy leaderâs 11-year house arrest and the countr...